This Act comes into effect on May 1, 2003.

①With regard to an order to return the whole or a part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. or to pay an amount not exceeding the amount equivalent to those benefits for unemployment, etc., issued to a person who has received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. by deception or other wrongful acts committed before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "effective date"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②The provisions of Article 10-4, paragraph (2) of the Employment Insurance Act as amended by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "new Employment Insurance Act") apply to an employer or an employment placement service provider, etc. that has made a false notification, report or certification on or after the effective date, and with regard to an order to an employer that made a false notification, report or certification before the effective date to pay, jointly and severally with the person who received payment of those benefits for unemployment, etc., the amount that the person was ordered to return or pay as benefits for unemployment, etc., the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the daily amount of the basic allowance and the daily amount of wages for qualified recipients of the basic allowance whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification is before the effective date (hereinafter referred to as "former qualified recipients"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the prescribed duration of benefits prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act for former qualified recipients, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The daily amount of the injury and disease allowance for former qualified recipients is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (3) of the new Employment Insurance Act, the amount equivalent to the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions.

With regard to the amount of the job applicant benefits for the elderly for elderly qualified recipients whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for the elderly is before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 40 of the new Employment Insurance Act to specially qualified recipients whose day of separation from service pertaining to the special recipient qualification is before the effective date (hereinafter referred to as "former specially qualified recipients"), the phrase "deemed to be a qualified recipient prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1), Articles 16 through 18" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "deemed to be a former qualified recipient prescribed in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003; referred to as the "amending Act" in the following paragraph), that Article", and the phrase "Article 17, paragraph (4)" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 17, paragraph (4) prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the amending Act".

①The provisions of Article 56-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act apply to the payment of the employment promotion allowance under the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article to qualified recipients, etc. prescribed in Article 56-2, paragraph (2) of the new Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as "qualified recipients, etc." in this paragraph) who have taken up employment on or after the effective date, and with regard to the payment of the re-employment allowance under the provisions of Article 56-2, paragraph (1) or the payment of the regular employment preparation allowance under the provisions of Article 57, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "former Employment Insurance Act") to qualified recipients, etc. who took up employment before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②In the case where a former qualified recipient has taken up employment on or after the effective date, the provisions of Article 56-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act apply by deeming the daily amount of the basic allowance that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions to be the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Articles 16 through 18 of the new Employment Insurance Act, and the prescribed duration of benefits that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions to be the prescribed duration of benefits prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act.

③With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 56-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act to former specially qualified recipients who have taken up employment on or after the effective date, the phrase "deemed to be a qualified recipient of the basic allowance, Articles 16 through 18" in paragraph (3), item (iii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "deemed to be a former qualified recipient prescribed in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003), that Article".

④The re-employment allowance received pursuant to the provisions of Article 56-2, paragraph (1) of the former Employment Insurance Act and the regular employment preparation allowance received pursuant to the provisions of Article 57, paragraph (1) of the former Employment Insurance Act are deemed, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 56-2, paragraph (2) of the new Employment Insurance Act, to be the employment promotion allowance received pursuant to the provisions of that Article.

⑤With regard to a person who received payment of the re-employment allowance under the provisions of Article 56-2, paragraph (1) of the former Employment Insurance Act by taking stable employment before the effective date and who continues to be in that employment on the effective date, the provisions of Article 57 of the new Employment Insurance Act apply by deeming the person to have received payment of the employment promotion allowance pertaining to a person who falls under Article 56-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (b) of the new Employment Insurance Act. In this case, the phrase "specific recipients of the employment promotion allowance" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "specific recipients of the re-employment allowance"; the phrase "employment promotion allowance (limited to that pertaining to a person who falls under paragraph (1), item (i), (b) of the preceding Article; the same applies hereinafter in this Article)" in item (i) of that paragraph with "re-employment allowance under the provisions of Article 56-2 prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003; hereinafter referred to as the "amending Act" in this Article) (hereinafter referred to as the "re-employment allowance" in this Article)"; the phrase "that employment promotion allowance" with "that re-employment allowance"; the phrase "paragraph (5) of the preceding Article" with "Article 56-2, paragraph (4) prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the amending Act"; the phrase "specific recipients of the employment promotion allowance means persons who have received payment of the employment promotion allowance" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "specific recipients of the re-employment allowance means persons who have received payment of the re-employment allowance"; the phrase "that employment promotion allowance" with "that re-employment allowance"; and the phrase "Article 57, paragraph (1)" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "Article 57, paragraph (1) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the amending Act".

With regard to the restriction on benefits under the provisions of Article 60 of the new Employment Insurance Act for former qualified recipients who took stable employment before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to the payment of the educational training benefits under the provisions of Article 60-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employment Insurance Act to a person who falls under any of the items of that paragraph and who commenced the educational training prescribed in that paragraph before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the payment of the basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly to an insured person for whom the day on which the person reached 60 years of age (or, if the person falls under Article 61, paragraph (1), item (i) of the new Employment Insurance Act on that day, the day on which the person ceased to fall under that item) is before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②With regard to the payment of the re-employment benefits for the elderly to former qualified recipients who have become insured persons by taking stable employment before the effective date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-2 of the new Employment Insurance Act to former qualified recipients who have become insured persons by taking stable employment on or after the effective date, the term "daily amount of wages" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "daily amount of wages that the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003)".

④The provisions of Article 61-2, paragraph (4) of the new Employment Insurance Act do not apply to a person who has become an insured person by taking stable employment before the effective date.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-4, paragraph (4) of the new Employment Insurance Act to an insured person for whom the day before the day on which the person commenced the leave pertaining to the payment of the basic childcare leave benefits is before the effective date, the term "qualified recipient" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "former qualified recipient prescribed in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003; hereinafter referred to as the "amending Act" in this paragraph)", the term "Article 17" with "that Article", and the phrase "of that Article" with "of Article 17 prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the amending Act".

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-7, paragraph (4) of the new Employment Insurance Act to an insured person for whom the day before the day on which the person commenced the leave pertaining to the payment of the nursing care leave benefits is before the effective date, the term "qualified recipient" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "former qualified recipient prescribed in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 31 of 2003; hereinafter referred to as the "amending Act" in this paragraph)", the term "Article 17" with "that Article", and the phrase "of that Article" with "of Article 17 prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the amending Act".

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

After this Act comes into effect, the Government is to review the provisions of Sections 5 through 6 of Chapter III of the new Employment Insurance Act (including the parts of the provisions of Articles 11 and 12 of the new Employment Insurance Act that concern the employment promotion benefits prescribed in Section 5 of that Chapter, the educational training benefits prescribed in Section 5-2 of that Chapter and the continuous employment benefits prescribed in Section 6 of that Chapter), while taking into account the state of implementation of those provisions, the state of income of persons who receive payment of those employment promotion benefits, those educational training benefits and those continuous employment benefits, changes in socioeconomic conditions and other factors, and is to take required measures when it finds it necessary.